Ready to feel more confident walking into your Geography exam? 🌋🗺️ Our brand new 2025 AQA GCSE Geography Predicted Papers are now live—and they’re packed with everything you need to revise smarter, not harder.
Here’s what’s included:
✅ Exam-style questions covering all key topics
✅ Mark schemes to show you exactly how to hit those high-level marks
✅ Full video walkthroughs explaining how to structure and improve your answers
✅ Pre-release questions and guidance so you know exactly how to tackle that unfamiliar resource!
These resources are designed to take the stress out of Geography—so you can focus on understanding, linking case studies, and showing off everything you’ve learned.
AQA GCSE Geography Paper 1 Predictions
🌋 Tectonic Hazards
Focus on causes, effects, and responses to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Know the difference between primary and secondary effects and between immediate and long-term responses. Case study: compare a LIC/NEE (e.g. Nepal 2015) with a HIC (e.g. Chile 2010). Understand plate boundaries and why people live in hazard-prone areas. Use the three Ps: prediction, protection, planning.
🌡️ Adaptation to Climate Change
This is about how we live with climate change, not stop it! Know examples of:
Agricultural adaptation (e.g. drought-resistant crops)
Managing water supply (e.g. desalination, rainwater collection)
Coping with rising sea levels (e.g. sea walls, managed retreat) Be ready to explain why adaptation is needed and link to specific regions or strategies from case studies.
🌀 Impacts of Tropical Storms
Know the structure and formation of tropical storms and how climate change may affect their frequency and intensity. Learn a named example like Typhoon Haiyan: include primary/secondary effects and immediate/long-term responses. Use terms like storm surge, high winds, flooding. Be prepared to evaluate the effectiveness of responses.
🌳 Deforestation
Focus on tropical rainforests, especially the Amazon. Know causes: logging, farming, mining, road building. Impacts include loss of biodiversity, climate change, and indigenous displacement. Learn sustainable management strategies like selective logging, ecotourism, and debt reduction. Use data and examples!
🐪❄️ Economic Development in Desert/Cold Environments
Use the Thar Desert and Svalbard (Arctic) as case studies. Know opportunities (e.g. tourism, mining, energy) and challenges (e.g. extreme temperatures, accessibility). Explain how development is managed sustainably in harsh conditions. Link to fragile environments and human activity impacts.
🌊 Coastal Erosion
Understand erosional processes: hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, and solution. Be able to explain the formation of features like headlands, bays, caves, arches, stacks. Use a named UK example (e.g. Holderness Coast). Know hard and soft engineering methods for coastal management and their pros/cons.
🌧️ Flood Risk for Rivers
Know physical and human factors that increase flood risk: precipitation, geology, urbanisation, deforestation. Use a case study like Boscastle or Cumbria floods. Understand how to interpret storm hydrographs and describe flood management strategies (e.g. dams, flood relief channels, flood warnings).
❄️ Managing Glacial Landscapes
Glacial landscapes = erosional and depositional features (e.g. U-shaped valleys, moraines, drumlins). Know how these features form and how people use these areas (tourism, hydroelectric power, farming). Learn about conflicts and management strategies in glaciated areas (e.g. Snowdonia or the Lake District).
AQA GCSE Geography Paper 2 Predictions
🌆 Urban Growth in LICs & NEEs
Focus on push and pull factors for rural-urban migration and the growth of megacities. Use a case study like Rio de Janeiro or Mumbai. Know about challenges (e.g. housing shortages, traffic, waste management) and solutions like site and service schemes, self-help housing, or improving education and healthcare. Use terms like urbanisation, informal economy, and favela.
🏙️ Urban Change in UK Cities
Case study required—typically London or Bristol. Know about causes of change (deindustrialisation, migration), and effects on socio-economic and environmental aspects. Learn about urban regeneration projects (e.g. London Docklands or Temple Quarter in Bristol) and how cities are becoming more sustainable (transport, green spaces, energy use).
🏗️ Investment Development Projects
Focus on how global investment and foreign aid help LICs/NEEs develop. Use a named example such as China investing in Africa or the Jubilee Line Extension in the UK. Know how investment improves infrastructure, creates jobs, and promotes economic growth—but also explore potential drawbacks like debt or inequality.
🚄 UK Transport Infrastructure
Know improvements in roads, railways, ports, and airports. Key examples include:
HS2 and its pros/cons
London Crossrail
Liverpool2 port expansion Explain how these projects improve economic growth, reduce congestion, and improve regional connectivity—but also consider environmental and social impacts.
🚰 Water Quality in the UK
Know why water quality matters (health, environment) and how it's maintained (treatment plants, regulations). Understand causes of pollution: agricultural runoff, industrial waste, sewage. Learn strategies for managing water quality like monitoring, improving treatment, and education campaigns.
🍽️ Food Insecurity
Know the causes: climate change, poverty, conflict, poor infrastructure. Understand the impacts: malnutrition, economic instability, reliance on imports. Case studies might include Sahel region or Bangladesh. Learn about sustainable solutions like irrigation, GM crops, and appropriate technology (e.g. drip irrigation).
💧 Water Insecurity
Understand both physical scarcity (e.g. low rainfall) and economic scarcity (e.g. lack of investment). Case studies: Africa’s Sahel region, California, or South Asia. Know the impacts—on health, farming, industry—and management strategies like dams, water transfer schemes, and conservation.
⚡ Energy Insecurity
Understand causes: rising demand, depletion of resources, political conflict, reliance on fossil fuels. Know the consequences: increased costs, conflict, energy rationing. Case studies might include Russia/Ukraine gas supplies, or UK’s shift to renewables. Learn management strategies: diversifying energy mix, renewables, fracking, and conservation.